Selfish Strife

The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.

Victorious in Humility

Christianity is not one ideology over against other ideologies. It is a life inspired by the Holy Spirit. Its victories are nothing but victories over ...

Forget the World's Standards

I know what a Miss America looks like, but how about a Miss Kingdom of God? Hard to see, isn't it? By the world's standard, I may end up ordinary. ...

The God-Man

Infinite, and an infant.

Divine Littleness

The Christ child is the real model of this "littleness," this poverty, this nothingness. And yet He was All. God lacked nothing, but there was ...

Christ's Choice

The Temptation

(Jesus) rose up from the place where the kingdoms of the world shimmered before him, where crowns flashed and banners rustled, and hosts ...

The Unknown Hero of Everest

In 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, the first man ever to do that. The man who impressed me most, though, was not Edmund ...

Wanted: Better Self-Critics

It would be wonderful if St. Augustine's kind of confessional self-scrutiny (or that of St. John of the Cross in his Dark Night of the Soul) would ...

The Bare Essentials

Now, as always, God [discloses] Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach ...

Childlike Faith

Faith is an area where growing up means we must become more like a child.